Re: [Fink-users] KDE wm does not run in Leopard with Apple's X11

[Gary K O. <gar...@ma...>]

I updated 10.4 to 10.5 (I did not archive and install) successfully  
and installed XTools3.0.  When I launched XDarwin (using xorg), KDE  
came up but the fonts were screwed up -  I only had a box outline for  
each character.  I checked /etc/fonts and the fonts.conf and fonts.dtd  
files were now fonts.conf.bak and fonts.dtd.bak, so I restored them w/ 
o the .bak.  No go. I then rebuilt xorg and xorg-shlibs (I had not yet  
issued the fink reinstall fink command). No go. Then I reinstalled  
fink and found out that 10.5 does not support xorg, so I installed  
Apple's X11.  Interestingly, when I originally updated, the Leopard  
DVD installed /usr/X11 with usr/X11/: include, lib and man directories  
even though I did not ask the installer to install X11.  When I  
installed Apple's X11, I manually installed the X11 and X11SDK  
packages, and I got everything.

I can run X11 with quartz-wm, windowmaker, and icewm, but I can not  
run the KDE window manager.  Under windowmaker with quartz-wm --only- 
proxy & set in my .xinitrc file, I can launch the individual KDE apps  
and XEmacs.  However, KDE with the following set in .xinitrc:

export KDEWM=kwin
exec /sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1

will not run.  I have  xterm and rxvt windows come up in rootless mode  
with no borders yet as usual, and the KDE tooltip logo comes up next  
to the cursor and then I get the following two messages as crash  
dialogs:

1. The application ksplash quit unexpectedly.  There is a long crash  
report in dialog that I can not copy.
	
2. The application kdeinit quit unexpectedly. Again with with long  
crash message.

After the crash message come up Apple's X11 crashes.

Obviously, both the kde splash screen and kdeinit crashed.  Does  
anyone have any suggestions?

XTools3.0 appears to be working properly as I am able to build new  
packages with fink without any problems.  My kit is:

iMac G5
Package manager version: 0.27.7-41
Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc
powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
OSX 10.5
XTools3.0

Gary K Olson